X CONTENTS. 



VII. THE INDIAN OCEAN. 



PAGR 



Indian Archipolaj^o — Proas of the Laclrones — Malay Pirates — 

 Rajah Brooke — Ills E.xpedition against the Pirates — His Success — 

 Jlcrciful Policy — Christian Mission in Borneo — Number and Beauty 

 of small Islands — Houses over the Sea — Chinese Junks — Tj-phoou 

 — Waterspouts — A Chinese Wreck — Esculent Birds'-nests — Their 

 Nature — Modes of obtaining them — Value — Use — Sea-weeds — 

 Trepang — Change of the Monsoon — Coming in of the Bore — 

 Beauty and Singularity of Fishes — Curious Mode of Fishing — 

 Violet-snail — Portuguese Man-of-wai- — Sallee-man — Glass-shells — 

 Clamp — Pearls — Fishery — Floating- weeds — Pelicans — Luminosity 

 of the Sea — Noctiluca — Various kinds of Luminous Animals — 

 Conclosion 312 



